Making A Digital Photo Book Future Generations Will Treasure
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The aesthetics of photography have changed enormously over the last few years. I for one was shocked recently when looking through a photo album from just a couple of years back. Although the digital technology had come a long way, compared to today’s cameras, the quality was somewhat grainy, and did not rival the use of film photography like the SLR’s on the market at present do. This got me thinking about the future of photo albums, digital photo books and the future of photography.
Recently, Microsoft launched a new piece of software that allows many pictures taken of popular tourist hot spots to be stitched together and explored in a three dimensional space on the internet. According to news reports, this is the future of the photograph, as digital cameras have reached a peak in photograph quality. Being able to explore a space thoroughly an in as much depth as images will allow is indeed an exciting advancement, but does it have a place in the snapshots we take at home?
One thing the digital camera has given us is the ability to take as many pictures as we like quickly, easily and cheaply. Think about the amount of photographs you have of a new born baby for example. Putting all these images together in software programmes would enable people to see a slow and subtle progression over the first few years of a baby’s life; but is it personal enough?
Photo albums have traditionally been something of a keepsake, and the software options of the future seem little short of an intriguing experiment. Digital photo books however, rest on the precipice of the two and may well be an ideal compromise. The quality and layout of a digital photo book is both high quality and professional looking, and at the same time it has an essence of being a memento.
Treasuring items and possessions are a big part of our culture, and having something physical to pass on is a tradition. Photo albums with fading images linger in living rooms around the world, and the digital photo book is able to carry on this social peculiarity in an age where everything is else is concentrating on purely digital media.
With technology constantly changing, why risk losing the images that make up a family history. Maybe individually printing pictures is no longer en vogue, but the desire to look through albums of family photos is still there.
Dom Donaldson is a photographic expert.
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